Day 183

Fresh Start_183: The King of Hollywood
Honestly, with all this basketball news over the past 2 weeks or so, I just want to take a breather. The latest is that Earvin “Magic” Johnson is taking over the Basketball Operations for the Los Angeles Lakers. The longtime Laker Legend will be taking the jobs of longtime GM Mitch Kupchak and VP of Basketball Operations Jim Buss.

This is an interesting move because of the career of Magic Johnson. While Johnson has owned the Los Angeles Dodgers for a number of years now, he has had no previous experience in the Front Office business side of basketball or any sport for that matter. While this is a big headline move, I don’t think this is a fantastic move right off the bat. This is coming off of the rumors that the Lakers wouldn’t give up rookie forward Brandon Ingram in a DeMarcus Cousins trade. Putting a man who has success in game of basketball in charge of the daily operations of managing the team from the front office isn’t a good thing. Phil Jackson can be a prime example of this with the Knicks. Johnson, has been asked who he would appoint, and he has said that he would reach out to fellow Laker Legend Kobe Bryant. It would be interesting to see what a Magic and Kobe run front office would look like, but if I was a Laker fan I would be cautious about this.  

Phil Jackson has turned the Knicks into a dumpster fire of a basketball team in his 2 and a half years as the head man. Magic Johnson has to extremely careful about the moves that he makes for the Lakers, because if he makes a strand of bad moves for the Lakers, he could be run out of town as quickly as he became a star in it.
Sources:(espn.com, nba.com)

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